All Things Aisha
Coming from a multi-ethnic background, Aisha speaks these three languages on top of English. All of which have Latin roots.
What are Haitian Creole, French, and Spanish?
The characters from two texts may have this same name but on the surface, they are complete opposites
Who is pilate?
These two masters of short stories and their use of cornerstones. One of which being monkeys and for the other, trees and fields.
Who are Kate Chopin and Jhumpa Lahiri?
Her dissertation will be on The American Dream
Who is Joya?
The best way to start an essay is with this
What is a hook?
A magnificent show filled with good looks, romance, intelligence, and sabotage about a real-life London gang.
What is the Peaky Blinders?
Old money vs new money.
What is west egg vs east egg?
While a prolific writer and a pioneer in their genre, this author (from their novel and a conversation with a fellow prolific writer) perhaps could not grasp the importance of intersectionality.
Who is James Baldwin?
These two always find Aisha in the hallways to ask her questions. They are both performers and friends
Who are Max and Leila?
This specific line or two becomes your contract to your readers.
What is the They Say, I Say Thesis statement?
While getting her grad degree in this, Aisha had to confront a prominent writer in the field, her professor.
What is Memoir?
These characters of this same name marked a specific change and point in their hero's journeys
Who is Circe?
This book of poems and film allowed the class to delve into Afrofuturism a concept about propelling Blackness into the future.
What are Life on Mars and Beasts of The Southern Wild?
She asked a daring question (even though it wasn't meant to be) that had Aisha laughing for too long and everyone else in the class curious
Who is Iman?
You may want to start a paragraph with a quote, but you really should start with this instead.
What is a topic sentence?
One named after a Roman emperor and the other named after a cunning Greek statesman and a Roman artist, these children have big shoes to fill.
Who are Alci-Rene Raphael and MarkAnthony?
Both of these characters were killed by their ever-elusive dreams, aspirations, and water.
Who are Gatsby and Hagar?
William Blake and Wiliams Wordsworth were writers in this period and style.
What is the Romantic Style and Era?
She and Aisha have two things in common a country and a name.
Who is Isa?
These are five parts of the rhetorical situation.
What are the context, culture, writer, purpose, and audience?
She was the most beloved, a poet, an intellect and a beauty and also who Aisha is named after.
Who is Prophet Muhammed's wife?
These two characters from two novels (one man and one woman) may be seen as incredibly strange but perhaps, it may just mean that they are closer to God.
This item of Tracy K Smith's book of poem and elegy to her father is one of key aspects of looking to the stars, and what her father worked with while alive
Was is the Hubble telescope?
They read Gwendolyn Brooks's poem beautifully. Perhaps because of their background in music
Who is Harrison?
When writing an in-text citation the punctuation generally goes here.
What is after the parenthesis?